[CLUE-Tech] LILO Boot Problem

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:24:31 -0700
Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at  9:52:29 -0700, Jed S. Baer
> <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> 
> > but it might not have been on that machine. Have your tried booting
> > the box with those options, or just NORMAL. The whole point of LBA is
> > that the drive remaps the geometry, in effect reporting something the
...
> Checking the BIOS when I got home revealed that despite the different
> "appearance" in geometry, the LBA mode did report the proper disk size.
> So, I switched to LBA mode, modified my lilo.conf, ran the lilo command
> and rebooted....It Worked!

Ah, wonderful. Now you don't know whether changing the BIOS setting or
changing LILO was the operative fix. ;-)

jed
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